Ratko Mladic

Ratko Mladic (12 March 1943-) was a Colonel-General in the armies of Yugoslavia, the Republic of Serbian Krajina, and Republika Srpska during the Croatian War of Independence and the Bosnian War.

Biography
Ratko Mladic was born in Bozanovici, Independent State of Croatia in 1943, the son of a member of the Yugoslav Partisans who was killed at the end of World War II in 1945. Mladic entered the Yugoslav People's Army in 1965 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1980, Colonel in 1986, and Major-General in 1991. He came to prominence during Yugoslavia's breakup, coming to serve as Chief-of-Staff of the army of the Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War. In 1992, during the Siege of Sarajevo, Mladic ordered the shelling of the Presidency and Parliament buildings and to shell Muslim neighborhoods until they were "on the edge of madness", and he was nicknamed "the Butcher of Bosnia" for the war crimes committed under his command. On 26 May 2011, he was arrested in Lazarevo, Serbia, and, on 22 November 2017, the ICTY sentenced him to 10 years in prison for his conduct during the Siege of Sarajevo and his role in the Srebrenica massacre.